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"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."
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"As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship."
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"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."
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"Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates."
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"Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it."
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"This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American."
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"The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda."
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"No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had."
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"A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government."
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"You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government."
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"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
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"The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out."
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"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
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"The government gave me enough money to go to acting school."
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"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene."
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"We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make."
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"Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow."
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"The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?"
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"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself."
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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
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"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere."
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"I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative."
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"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
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"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream."
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"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."
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"I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council."
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"Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about."
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"If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system."
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"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
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"Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good."
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"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
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"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
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"You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones."
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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."
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"After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world."
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"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."
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"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
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"The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more."
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"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
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"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
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"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
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"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
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"It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people."
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"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."
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"After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies."
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"This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances."
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"I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California."
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